Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing,… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself,… — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else.… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
“I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
When I think I can do the best job by acting in someone's piece, I want to do that. And when I… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand… — David Cook Copy Share Image
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“I felt Matt exorcising his turmoil in the prose. Only a few people would know the truth of this fiction.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
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